Author: Mary Claire PinckneyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780970325457
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Dem Twelb Day
Author: Mary Claire PinckneyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780970325457
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Dem Twelb Day
Author: Mary Pinckney JonesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christmas stories
Languages : cpe
Pages : 12
Book Description
Retelling of the Twelve days of Christmas in Gullah dialect.
Dem Days Was Hell - Recorded Testimonies of Former Slaves from 17 U.S. States
Author: Work Projects AdministrationPublisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8026874048
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 7860
Book Description
Step back in time and meet everyday people from another era: This edition brings to you the complete collection of hundreds of life stories, incredible vivid testimonies of former slaves from 17 U.S. southern states, including photos of the people being interviewed and their extraordinary narratives. After the end of Civil War in 1865, more than four million slaves were set free. There were several efforts to record the remembrances of the former slaves. The Federal Writers' Project was one such project by the United States federal government to support writers during the Great Depression by asking them to interview and record the myriad stories and experiences of slavery of former slaves. The resulting collection preserved hundreds of life stories from 17 U.S. states that would otherwise have been lost in din of modernity and America's eagerness to deliberately forget the blot on its recent past. Contents: Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia Indiana Kansas Kentucky Maryland Mississippi Missouri North Carolina Ohio Oklahoma South Carolina Tennessee Texas Virginia
The Campaign Book of the Democratic Party
Author: Democratic National Committee (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Campaign literature
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Chicago Daily News Almanac
Author: Chicago Daily News Almanac and Political Register
Author: George Edward PlumbePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description
Twelve Days
Author: Tony SilberPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1640125892
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
In the popular literature and scholarship of the Civil War, the days immediately after the surrender at Fort Sumter are overshadowed by the great battles and seismic changes in American life that followed. The twelve days that began with the federal evacuation of the fort and ended with the arrival of the New York Seventh Militia Regiment in Washington were critically important. The nation's capital never again came so close to being captured by the Confederates. Tony Silber's riveting account starts on April 14, 1861, with President Lincoln's call for seventy-five thousand militia troops. Washington, a Southern slaveholding city, was the focal point: both sides expected the first clash to occur there. The capital was barely defended, by about two thousand local militia troops of dubious training and loyalty. In Charleston, less than two days away by train, the Confederates had an organized army that was much larger and ready to fight. Maryland's eastern sections were already reeling in violent insurrection, and within days Virginia would secede. For half of the twelve days after Fort Sumter, Washington was severed from the North, the telegraph lines cut and the rail lines impassable, sabotaged by secessionist police and militia members. There was no cavalry coming. The United States had a tiny standing army at the time, most of it scattered west of the Mississippi. The federal government's only defense would be state militias. But in state after state, the militia system was in tatters. Southern leaders urged an assault on Washington. A Confederate success in capturing Washington would have changed the course of the Civil War. It likely would have assured the secession of Maryland. It might have resulted in England's recognition of the Confederacy. It would have demoralized the North. Fortunately, none of this happened. Instead, Lincoln emerged as the master of his cabinet, a communications genius, and a strategic giant who possessed a crystal-clear core objective and a powerful commitment to see it through. Told in real time, Twelve Days alternates between the four main scenes of action: Washington, insurrectionist Maryland, the advance of Northern troops, and the Confederate planning and military movements. Twelve Days tells for the first time the entire harrowing story of the first days of the Civil War.
The U.S. Democratic Review
Author: Rowell's American Newspaper Directory
Author: George Presbury RowellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Advertising
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
The United States Democratic Review
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Vols. 1-3, 5-8 contain the political and literary portions; v. 4 the historical register department, of the numbers published from Oct. 1837 to Dec. 1840.